The First SE NFT.

[Alaray]

trash fire decisions from a trash fire company.

[Xlantaa]

This has been done by Nintendo with the Amiibos for ages.

[Milus]

When she will be turn into a NFT?

[Hanayumi]

So what does this mean?

Nothing, you either buy it or you dont. Nfts aren't really for the Western demographic anyway, folks hate em here, but they still doing well in Japan and Korea which is likely where SE is primarily aiming for.

[DPZ2]

What's frustrating is that they really don't need to embrace NFT's in order to make money - they've still got a lot of beloved older games that they could remaster and release to massive success.

What leads you to believe it is an "either/or" situation? They've been doing both.

[DPZ2]

I'm sure you could have made that more condescending if you had wanted to, but not by much.

The thread title "The First SE NFT", created on this forum, would never have been written if the OP had any knowledge of what SE was doing with NFTs for the past 2+ years.

[Toutatis]

So essentially it’s just an image, SE maintains all rights and you just pay for a “transaction”. There’s nothing the buyer can do with these images that cannot already be done by everyone else contrary to a physical copy. No matter what agreement SE enters with the person paying for this, what’s to stop other people from making copies and use it on their phones? I can already download the image and set it as background if I want to. Am I missing something?

A fool and their money...

[Anienai]

Y'shtola is next. This time the creepy doll is a jpeg.

I'm betting on Emet.

[Vahlnir]

This has been done by Nintendo with the Amiibos for ages.

Amiibos still have real, monetary value. And they can be physically used and displayed. That is the difference. NFTs are arguably one of the worst scams of all time.

[DPZ2]

That doesn't change the fact that SE has a lot of more important projects that need funding and has strained relationships with enough of its players to even consider testing them further with NFTs and all they entail.

And you're reading this in the Japanese media where?

When did a figurine created to make money become a project that requires a lot of funding, so much so that other games and media are not being funded?

They sold their North American gaming companies to recoup losses from the disappointing expenditure of funds that was "Marvel's Avengers". No more losses via Crystal Dynamics. I can guarantee they're not putting the entire 300 million dollars into NFTs. Where that money is going is up to SE, they are not required to distribute a penny of it to this game in particular.